RE: [Firebird-test] Some important news/reading regarding test su ites

[Leyne, S. <sl...@at...>]

I heard through the grapevine that Rob was, at the very least, running
training courses for the new IB support staff.


Sean

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From: Mark O'Donohue [mailto:mar...@lu...]
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Subject: Re: [Firebird-test] Some important news/reading regarding test
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Hi

Thanks Sean

"Leyne, Sean" wrote:

> http://www.borland.com/interbase/letter.html

Well it seems we get something to test with.

>We will also make a series of test suites available to the
>community for developers to check code against before submitting it to
>the tree for review. Please look for the IBTests project to be active
in the
>next few days on http://sourceforge.net/projects/ib-tests.


But not the whole QA suite:

>Due to the nature of the open source license, other entities are
empowered
>to certify their own versions of InterBase. In support of this,
>Inprise/Borland is evaluating how to license a meaningful assortment of

>QA test suites to members of the community. We will also be evaluating
>the use of copyrights and registered trademarks owned by
Inprise/Borland
>relative to the InterBase name. We are working to make all important
>decisions as quickly as possible and will post information as it
becomes
>available.

So it seems like they still want to retain the complete QA suite and
licence it.

I'd be interested to hear Ann's perspective on what ibphoenix intend to
do with regards to licencing the test suite ( I know your busy Ann :-) ,
as we all are at the moment.

At least they are talking.

In the back of my mind I have this wild theory that Rob (Mers Rob) is
working on the test suites :-)  It's a wild idea/guess on my part,  with
no substance, but I have wondered what all the "you don't know what he's
doing" "under an NDA" and "regularly in contact with Rebecca" stuff that
has followed him recently has been about.

Anyway, I suppose this is part of the "clarification" phase.  Where
Inprise lay out their grand vision and tell us where they are heading.
Once that is done then I suppose we start having some contact with them
technical and otherwise, and see if we can work together.

When I get back I'll keep on the test suites from NIST., it's nice that
they have come out of their cellar, but I don't see any reason yet to
stop me working on the test suite.

Cheers

Mark



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